A relief depicting Durga[b]'s battle with
Mahishasura[c]. Durga is essentially
the wife of Shiva transformed by the gods into a goddess of destruction in order to
have someone who could defeat Mahishasura. With a body forged by the most powerful gods,
weapons ranging from Shiva's trident to Vishnu's discus and just a little feeling of
being totally über, she made short work of the demon.

A reproduction of the multicolored decorations that greek columns originally
had. This, called polychrome[d],
had completely worn off by the time the ancient Greek temples were inspected by
the Victorian English, and so they were left with the impression that classical
architecture completely lacked color. Later analysis of the stone revealed the
colorful patterns that had once been painted on it, and the replica
of the Parthenon in Nashville[e] reproduces what is thought to be the original
colors.

A gallery of contemporary
Mid East art[f] was open. This is one of the three statues
by Parviz Tanavoli on the way to the gallery. All statues depict the word "heech",
meaning "nothingness", as written in farsi.